Yes but it doesn’t fry them. I also think it does sausages superbly and quickly. (View Post)

I never saw the point of English and English lit at school, particularly the latter. In my opinion the great writers just wrote stuff - they didn’t sit down and analyse why what they were writing was… (View Post)

People make poor choices. Perhaps the Christmas swim is one of their big things? Don’t want to miss it and it will be in and out in minutes. Like hillwalking/climbing you can escalate from poor choic… (View Post)

I suspect it was mainly driven by the popularity of the author and lots of pushing by his mates at the BBC etc. I tried it and gave up, and I rarely give up on books. Utter rubbish. Implausible, bori… (View Post)

As a complete aside, for a while the wife and I had beans on toast every Wednesday. Stopped a while back, but kinda miss it… A really simple meal, quick, good value and I loved it. (View Post)